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* ArcherArchetype: Silent, independent, stoic Katy Deere seems ready to slip under the plot-radar in ''In Belly of the Bloodhound''. Then she gets a bow in her hands, and we learn very quickly that Katy Deere doesn’t need words to get her point across.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the last few books Jacky's dependents don't even get a mention. This may be due to AuthorExistenceFailure: the author, knowing that his final illness was likely terminal, took the precaution of writing the last book in advance, but intended to writing other books between that would have wrapped up the loose ends.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the last few books Jacky's dependents don't even get a mention. This may be due to AuthorExistenceFailure: the author, knowing that his final illness was likely terminal, took the precaution of writing the last book in advance, but intended to writing write other books between that would have wrapped up the loose ends.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the last few books Jacky's dependents don't even get a mention:

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the last few books Jacky's dependents don't even get a mention:mention. This may be due to AuthorExistenceFailure: the author, knowing that his final illness was likely terminal, took the precaution of writing the last book in advance, but intended to writing other books between that would have wrapped up the loose ends.

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*** He is also known to be a ready and willing beater of women and children, so the chance to whip Jacky for her "crimes" would give him great joy

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*** He is also known to be a ready and willing beater of women and children, so the chance to whip Jacky for her "crimes" would give him great joyjoy.


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** During the period the books are set, even someone much younger than Jacky could be arrested and sent to prison In the first book, in fact, young Jacky is traumatized by the hanging of a thief the same age as she and fears she will suffer the same fate if she doesn't find a way off the streets. It wasn't until around the 1850s when a movement arose to send children under 16 to reformatories in hopes of rehabilitating them.

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* TheAlcoholic: Gully.

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* YoYoPlotPoint: Jackie's run-ins with the law, [[VirginTension assaults on her virtue]], and the WillTheyOrWontThey between her and Jaimy are re-hashed virtually every book.

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* YoYoPlotPoint: Jackie's run-ins with the law, [[VirginTension assaults on her virtue]], and the WillTheyOrWontThey between her and Jaimy are re-hashed virtually every book.book.
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* NeverSayNever: Any time Jacky says she will not do something near the start of a book you can be sure it will happen before the end of the book.
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** [[Music/TheRollingStones Mick and Keefe]] in ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound''. Note the large lips, cockney accents, and leather-tanned skin.

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** [[Music/TheRollingStones [[Music/TheRollingStonesBand Mick and Keefe]] in ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound''. Note the large lips, cockney accents, and leather-tanned skin.
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* PantyShot: Jacky and Poseidon seem to have a... ''special'' relationship, much to her embarrassment, as an inevitable result of wearing a skirt on a windy deck.
** Happens in ''Bloody Jack'' as Jacky, in a rare moment as a girl, gets her skirts blown up by an errant breeze in full sight of her fellow ship's boys. The narrative is rather vague on whether or not Jacky was wearing drawers at the time.
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*** These can largely be chalked-up to being corrupt and/or incompetent KangarooCourts or they have been manipulated by political connections to attack Jacky or her allies

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*** These can largely be chalked-up to being corrupt and/or incompetent KangarooCourts KangarooCourt or they have been manipulated by political connections to attack Jacky or her allies

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* Depraved Homosexual/DepravedBisexual:

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* Depraved Homosexual/DepravedBisexual: Homosexual and DepravedBisexual
** Bill Sloat, a crewman on the Dolphin in ''Bloody Jack'', is an enemy of Jacky's sea-dad Liam and has a rather apparent sexual interest in Jacky. When he attempts to rape Jacky, he finds out she's actually a girl and expr, though thankfully Jacky manages to stab him with her shiv and he then falls off the ship.
** Captain Blodgett from ''In the Belly of the Bloodhound'', he never expresses interest in either the white Lawson Peabody girls or in African slave women he transports, and the crew of the Bloodhound is regularly confused and make a point to look away whenever Nettles emerges from his cabin each morning.
** Sammy Nettles, Captain Blodgett's "cabin boy", expresses quite vulgar sexual interests in the Lawson Peabody, particularly Jacky and Clarissa, and attempts to rape Jacky near the end of the book, but he sleeps in Captain Blodgett's cabin and Jacky tells him to go sit in the captain's lap as an insult.
** Sargeant Napper and Corporal Vance, two marine guards onboard the "Cerberus" in ''The Wake of the Lorelei Lee'', decide to take out Daniel Conolly, a young and pretty Irish boy, to rape him and also express interest in Jaimy when he offers himself instead.



* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Elspeth, after going catatonic for revealing that Jacky led the girls against their captors in Book 4, which resulted in Jacky getting punished.]]. And again in ''Wild Rover No More'' when [[spoiler: Amy tries to commit suicide after Jacky's execution. Fortunately Randell sabotaged her pistol]]

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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Elspeth, after going catatonic for revealing that Jacky led the girls against their captors in Book 4, which resulted in Jacky getting punished.]]. And again in ''Wild Rover No More'' when [[spoiler: Amy tries to commit suicide after Jacky's execution. Fortunately Randell Fortunately, Randall sabotaged her pistol]]

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** A girl who is considered a minor is able to have a Ward and an adopted son?

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*** This can be summed up by Constable Wiggins being a corrupt and incompetent police officer
*** He is also known to be a ready and willing beater of women and children, so the chance to whip Jacky for her "crimes" would give him great joy
** A girl who is considered a minor is able to have a Ward ward and an adopted son?son?
*** She's 19 by the time she return to America with Ravi and Joanie


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*** These can largely be chalked-up to being corrupt and/or incompetent KangarooCourts or they have been manipulated by political connections to attack Jacky or her allies


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* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: "'Tis me, Arthur McBride, who's killing you. I want you to know on your way to hell that it was me who sent you there, you worthless piece of British crap."

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* MyNameIsInigoMontoya: "'Tis me, Arthur McBride, [=Arthur McBride=], who's killing you. I want you to know on your way to hell that it was me who sent you there, you worthless piece of British crap."
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** Meyer's tendency to make public announcements in-character as Jacky came to a heartbreaking conclusion when Jacky announced [[AuthorExistenceFailure Meyer's death]] to fans via social media.

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* IronLady: Mistress Pimm.

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* NoPeekingRequest: After Jacky is taken prisoner in "Under the Jolly Roger", a [[OfficerAndAGentleman Corporal]] gives her her clothes back and she asks him to turn around while she changes, and is mildly amused by his blushing as he does so.



* PeacefulInDeath: [[spoiler: Hughie.]]

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* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler: Katy Deere.]]

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* RichBitch: Clarissa

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** Some characters use or refer to cocaine. Cocaine was first extracted from coca leaves in 1850s, about five decades after the books are set.
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* CouldntFindALighter: Lord Richard Allen uses the burning fuse of a bomb to light his cigar in ''Rapture of the Deep''.
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* AuthorExistenceFailure: Meyer actually [[DefiedTrope defied]] this trope by writing the last book in the series in advance and placing it in storage so Jackie and her fans would still get their happy ending if he failed to survive his final illness. Which might explain the loose ends which went untied, as he was hoping to fit in more books in between.
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The series is a must-read for anyone who likes historical fiction, adventure, pirates, and genuine plucky heroines. The story is fast-paced and fun to read, but not simplistic in the least--to fully describe the plot would make this page longer than MomentOfAwesome. But feel free to break the cast down by trope with the [[Characters/BloodyJack Character Sheet]].

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The series is a must-read for anyone who likes historical fiction, adventure, pirates, and genuine plucky heroines. The story is fast-paced and fun to read, but not simplistic in the least--to fully describe the plot would make this page longer than MomentOfAwesome.SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. But feel free to break the cast down by trope with the [[Characters/BloodyJack Character Sheet]].
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* ArtisticLicenceHistory:
** There are quite a few details that do not ring true to those familiar with daily life in this time. Jacky herself has some anachronistic notions, but that can be explained by her dual role.
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** Recurring character [[TheMonkees David Jones]] (Or perhaps, to his locker...)

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** Recurring character [[TheMonkees [[Music/TheMonkees David Jones]] (Or perhaps, to his locker...)

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The series is a must-read for anyone who likes historical fiction, adventure, pirates, and genuine plucky heroines. The story is fast-paced and fun to read, but not simplistic in the least--to fully describe the plot would make this page longer than MomentOfAwesome. But feel free to break the cast down by trope with the [[Characters/BloodyJack Character Sheet]]

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The series is a must-read for anyone who likes historical fiction, adventure, pirates, and genuine plucky heroines. The story is fast-paced and fun to read, but not simplistic in the least--to fully describe the plot would make this page longer than MomentOfAwesome. But feel free to break the cast down by trope with the [[Characters/BloodyJack Character Sheet]]Sheet]].

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not related to]] ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' in any way, shape, or form.

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